Came here with a group. First off - got great service. Good menu recommendations, and very accommodating when it came time splitting the bill.
I had a nice goat cheese with arugula salad to start that was a really nice mix with a superb dressing. I had the seafood risotto for the main course, and it was really good. I like my risotto to be steaming hot when it comes out, and it was - despite the large group I was with. There was a decent, but not overwhelming amount of seafood/scallops/shrimp - there could've been more, but hey - we're a thousand miles from the closest ocean here.
I was a grad student at UIUC back in the early 90's, and when my current employer came to a recruiting fair, they took a handful of us out to dinner. I had never been someplace so nice as a student, and it was probably the best meal I'd had in Champaign-Urbana during my school years - but I could never remember the name of the place. After going in there this time, it was clear - this was the place. Confirmed by a local professor who said that Timpone's was an Urbana tradition and had been around longer than most restaurtants. Fond memories.